Let’s all children PLAY INClusion: sharing a common approach for adapted sports addressed to disabled and non-disabled children

The project PlayInc, with a partnership of 5 organizations coming from 4 different countries - AICS (Italy), UCEC (Spain),HLA (Croatia) and CSIT (Austria) - led by the sport club Around Sport (Italy), has the goal of promoting social inclusion of children with disabilities through sport. In particular, the project focuses on the inclusion in organized sport activities of children with motor and cognitive disabilities together with non-disabled ones up to 13 years old, standing on the belief that, in order to produce better personal and social improvements in the disabled individual, the direct inclusion is the key. 12 coaches and 5 managers will participate in 3 international meetings, where, starting from the sharing of their experiences, they will work on the development of the toolkit that will include: 1 guideline, 1 video and 1 catalogue of adapted sports. 1 Sport director and 4 technical commissioners from CSIT will ensure an international oversight on the new adapted sports. All the outputs of the project will be gathered in the PlayInc online platform that will be designed according to the needs mapped involving the target groups. The platform will be free for anyone so that will be a tool to spread the knowledge developed during the projects to coaches and managers interested in learning how to adapt sports in order to include children with cognitive and motor disabilities. The dissemination strategy will be carried out at different levels: online, the platform will be used to spread the actions of the project, working in synergy with a social media campaign that will be carried out through the social pages and web sites of the partner organizations. Offline, the dissemination will be performed through the final conference and flash mobs that will be staged at national level. These strategies will enable the project to reach approx. 150.000 people online and 450 offline.